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6:48 PM, Tuesday September 1st 2020
First off, congrats on making 250 boxes! You can be proud for the rest of your life. The boxes look correct, but one thing stands out to me:
- Allow yourself to make mistakes! Sometimes when your line misses, you do another one. Please don't do that in next lessons, confident skill is made upon foundation of confident faliure.
Also sometimes your x-ray lines don't align with each other, and there is no point where they meet forming an edge. I suppose you fixed that problem, but still remember to first place a dot that makes an edge point, and then connect the dots using ghosting method.
Overall great job, good luck in lesson 2!
Next Steps:
Congratulations on finishing lesson the box challenge! Your next step is lesson 2
As I marked this as complete, you are now qualified to critique lesson 1 and box challenge submissions.
-Doing critiques is a way of learning and solidifying concepts. I can atest to that after having done hundreds of critiques. There are a lot of concepts that I did not understand, and thanks to critiquing I started understanding them. Which made me learn a lot more through the course.
-Another thing is that as the number of current submissions is super high and if you do some critiques, those would be less submissions I'd have to critique before reaching your next submissions, so you'd get your critiques faster. Uncomfortable also implemented a system that makes your submissions appear higher in the queue if you do critiques, so that would improve your chances even more.
It's totally optional of course, I won't force anyone to give critiques. But me and the other people who are critiquing would be super grateful if you gave it a shot.
Good luck on lesson 2, and keep up the good work!
NOTE: here's a quick guide on critiquing lesson 1 submissions.
and here's another on critiquing box challenge submissions.
There are a few people that feel hesitant to critique because they feel they aren't ready to, so hopefully it'll help you in case you are one of those people.
7:35 PM, Tuesday September 1st 2020
Thank you so much! Undoubtedly I have to work on my confidence when placing lines.
I will surely try to critique some submissions now! Thanks again and have a good day
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Like the Staedtlers, these also come in a set of multiple weights - the ones we use are F. One useful thing in these sets however (if you can't find the pens individually) is that some of the sets come with a brush pen (the B size). These can be helpful in filling out big black areas.
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